Compute Engine's VMs boot quickly, come with persistent disk storage, and deliver consistent
performance. Our virtual servers are available in many configurations including predefined
sizes or the option to create Custom Machine Types optimized for your
specific needs. Flexible pricing and automatic sustained use discounts
make Compute Engine the leader in price/performance.

Industry Leading Price & Performance

Compute Engine VMs boot quickly and are consistently high performance.
Compute Engine also offers industry-leading local SSD performance.
Compare throughput on equivalent IaaS offerings and see the
difference our virtual servers can make for your workloads.

Low Cost, Automatic Discounts

Google bills in second-level increments,
so you only pay for the compute time you use. With sustained use discounts,
we automatically give you discounted prices for long-running workloads
with no up-front commitment required.

Usage / Price

Fast & Efficient Networking

Create large compute clusters that benefit from strong and consistent
cross-machine bandwidth. Connect to machines in other data centers and
to other Google services using Google's private global fiber network.
Create an instance, check the network configs, run some tests.

Environmentally Friendly Global Network

Our infrastructure is entirely carbon-neutral.
Our global network of data centers consume 50% less energy than the typical
datacenter and in 2017, we will purchase 100% renewable energy to match consumption for our global operations.
We are growing our global datacenter footprint so your applications can run closer to your customers
and distribute geographically for resiliency.

Compute Engine Features

Scalable, High-Performance Virtual Machines

Compute Engine offers predefined virtual machine configurations
for every need from micro to instances with 96 vCPUs or 624GB of
memory, in standard, high memory, and high CPU configurations.

Custom Machine Types

Create virtual machines with the shape (i.e. vCPU and memory)
that is right for your workloads. By tailoring a
Custom Machine Type to
your specific needs you can realize significant savings.

Persistent Disks

Network storage, up to 64 TB in size, can be attached to VMs as
persistent disks. You can create persistent disks in HDD or SSD
formats. If a VM instance is terminated, its persistent disk
retains data and can be attached to another instance. You can also
take snapshots of your persistent disk and create new persistent
disks from that snapshot.

Local SSD

Compute Engine offers always-encrypted local solid-state drive (SSD) block storage.
Unlike standard persistent disks, local SSDs are
physically attached to the server hosting the virtual machine instance offering very
high input/output operations per second (IOPS) and very low latency compared to
persistent disks. Local SSD sizes up to 3 TB are available for any VM with at least 1
core.

Transparent Maintenance

Our innovative datacenters and Live Migration technology enable proactive
infrastructure maintenance, improving reliability and security. Your live
VMs are automatically moved to nearby hosts, even if your VMs are under
extreme load, while underlying host machines undergo maintenance.
You won't have to reboot your VMs due to host software updates or
even some classes of detectable hardware failure.

Global Load Balancing

Global load-balancing technology helps you distribute incoming requests
across pools of instances across multiple regions, so you can achieve
maximum performance, throughput and availability at low cost.

Linux & Windows Support

Run your choice of OS, including Debian, CentOS, CoreOS, SUSE, Ubuntu, Red Hat,
FreeBSD, or Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, and 2016. You can also use a shared image from
the Cloud Platform community, or bring your own.

Batch Processing

Cost effectively run large compute and batch jobs using Preemptible VMs.
Fixed pricing and no contracts or reservations make it easy:
simply check a box when you create the VM and turn them off when the work is done.

Compliance & Security

All data written to persistent disk in Compute Engine is encrypted on the
fly and then transmitted and stored in encrypted form. Google Compute Engine
has completed ISO 27001, SSAE-16, SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 certifications,
demonstrating our commitment to information security.

Per-Second Billing

Google bills in second-level increments. You pay only for the compute time that you use.

Automatic Discounts

With Sustained Use Discounts, we
automatically give you discounted prices for long-running workloads with no sign-up
fees or up-front commitment.

“
Since no existing cloud rendering solution could address our needs at that scale,
we decided to develop our own software atop Google Cloud Platform.
Google's efficiency, availability of resources, and per-second billing
formed the back-end of a product we call Conductor.
”